Alfred O.P. Nicholson

Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (31 August 1808-23 March 1876) was a US Senator from Tennessee (D) from 25 December 1840 to 7 February 1842 (succeeding Felix Grundy and preceding Ephraim H. Foster) and from 4 March 1859 to 3 March 1861 (succeeding John Bell and preceding Joseph S. Fowler).

Biography
Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson was born in Franklin, Tennessee in 1808, and he became a lawyer in 1831. He edited a newspaper and served in the State House before serving in the US Senate from 1840 to 1842 and from 1859 to 1861, and he was expelled from the Senate in 1861 after Tennessee joined the Confederate States during the American Civil War. Nicholson died in Columbia in 1876.